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| 16 Jun 2009 - Skills Academy celebrates first commerial partnership |
| The National Skills Academy Process Industries has welcomed the first commercial training partner to have its products and services successfully accredited to skills academy standards, giving the training company access to hundreds of employers seeking skills training. UK-wide training and development provider PICME is now accredited as an academy Centre for Business Improvement, working alongside the skills academy to help employers in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals and polymers sectors address crucial skills gaps across the £67bn industries. PICME was set up in 2000 specifically to service the UK’s process industries, and its approach is based on helping businesses to improve performance through engaging with their people and improving their skills.
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| 10 Jun 2009 - Sir Alan calls on firms to employ apprentices |
| Employers need to be taking on apprentices for the good of their own business, Sir Alan Sugar said yesterday. The leading businessman, famous for television’s The Apprentice where he picks a young person to employ and train, was in Gateshead to encourage local businesses to invest in apprenticeships. |
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| 04 Jun 2009 - National Skills Academy Nuclear welcomes the relicensing of Cogent |
| The National Skills Academy for Nuclear has welcomed the announcement by Secretary of State for the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, to relicense its parent organisation Cogent Sector Skills Council. |
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| 28 May 2009 - Engineering Nuclear New Build Conference |
| Establishing supply chain opportunities, timelines and next steps for the nuclear new build programme. |
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| 22 May 2009 - NSAPI New Board Member Sought |
| We are looking for Senior Industrialists to join our Board. Our Board Members provide strategic direction and contribute enormously to our efforts to help employers steer a steady course through the skills agenda, particularly in the current economic climate. |
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| 20 May 2009 - Employers urged to upskill |
| ONE of the UK’s most senior industrialists, from the world’s third largest chemical company, has urged North East employers to take control of the skills crisis affecting the £67bn process industries.
Tom Crotty, Chief Executive of INEOS Olefins and Polymers, part of the global $48bn chemicals company INEOS, outlined the steps businesses need to take to tackle the problems of a workforce in which 40% of people are aged 45 and over.
Speaking at a recent national skills summit organised by the National Skills Academy Process Industries, he spoke about the issues resulting from a lack of young people coming into the industry to replace those approaching retirement, plus other key skills shortages in the staff and contractor base. |
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| 19 May 2009 - Cogent Annual Scotland Training Providers Information Day |
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| 11 May 2009 - Cogent relicensed by Government |
| Cogent Sector Skills Council has today been relicensed by Skills Secretary John Denham. Cogent is working to ensure the skills supply into the high-value chemicals, pharmaceuticals, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries. It is one of four “first tranche” SSCs to have been successful in their application for a further trademark licence to operate as SSCs and has gone through a comprehensive assessment process lead by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. |
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